How to Attract the Birds 



ments, and pheasants (mainly Mongolian) have now 

 been introduced into at least twenty-five states, and 

 have increased rapidly through protection laws and 

 the establishment of pheasantries for their propaga- 

 tion." Concerning the other foreign game birds, 

 for whose naturalization many enthusiastic sports- 

 men have labored in vain, the painful facts are 

 quickly told. The few sand grouse liberated in 

 Oregon promptly disappeared. Of a large importa- 

 tion of Indian black partridges only three lived to 

 reach their destination in Illinois. The black 

 grouse, which has been liberated in Newfoundland, 

 in Vermont and other eastern states, appears to be 

 holding its own. Recently the capercailzie has been 

 introduced in the Adirondacks. 



Although several thousand European quail were 

 distributed in New England and the middle states, 

 all disappeared after a year or two. What splendid 

 results the same amount of money and effort ex- 

 pended on our more desirable Bob -White, or the 

 fast disappearing prairie -grouse, or the woodcock, 

 for example, might have accomplished! Ought we 

 not to be just before we are generous? 



Thanks to the homesickness of the Dutch and 

 English colonists, who had no sooner cleared the 

 wilderness around their homes than they sent to 

 Europe for trees, shrubs, vines, and plants from the 

 dear old gardens left behind, our native flora was 

 speedily enriched by valuable additions, many of 

 which took kindly to the soil and, escaping from 

 cultivation, became wild. And how many weed 

 seeds stole a passage across the Atlantic with them ! 

 Perhaps the colonists longed as greatly to see the 



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